Nurgle gaurd (servants of decay list)

[livevil]

Excellent work! That's a pretty good size force you have there! I do have a question, though. How were the blight drones to assemble and paint? I've always thought about picking one (or 4) up, but I've become a bit leery of some of Forgeworld's kits. Of the 5 or 6 kits I've picked up I've had problems with at least 3. Are there options you can take (does it lend itself to magnetization)? And how sturdy are the fan pod things?

Thanks!!
Nathan

[Fawful]

That's a very nice looking force you've got there.

Thanks

Oh good, papa will be pleased. Great work.

The great work has just begun

Wow gotta love this arym, looks awesome.

All the zombies make me pine for Necromunda!

Thanks,
I also have a small necromunda gang. Which rules do you use for zombies in that game? It would be a nice change for our campaign.

Excellent work! That's a pretty good size force you have there! I do have a question, though. How were the blight drones to assemble and paint? I've always thought about picking one (or 4) up, but I've become a bit leery of some of Forgeworld's kits. Of the 5 or 6 kits I've picked up I've had problems with at least 3. Are there options you can take (does it lend itself to magnetization)? And how sturdy are the fan pod things?

Thanks!!
Nathan

The blight drones are a peace of cake to assemble, the only fragile parts are a few of the tubes. You may need to add some green stuff to fill up the gap between the two big pieces. There are no weapon options although it has access to both a battle cannon and reaper autocannon so it's fairly versatile. The only part that might give you trouble is how to attach it to the base. The fan pods are fairly thick, but as always you need to take care of the model.

Painting them is fairly easy, but that kind of depends on the colours you want to use. For these I painted the fleshy parts in the same colour using a dheneb stone basecoat and a devlan mud wash. Then I layered on to the model to little streaks of white. The shell parts have different basecoats and were pretty much improvised while painting. There are hardly any small details so it's fairly easy to paint.

[horacus]

The great work has just begun

Oh, great. All praises then.

[Fawful]

Another day, another update. I've finished the ork terrain and as such had some more time to finish the bloodthirster. I also have have three nurgling swarms done, with more ready to be basecoated.

First the bloodthirster:
I decided to use some darker reds on this and started from a brown basecoat and use a blue wash in between. The armour is brass with iron edges to make them stand out a little more. I wanted the axe to look a little gory so I used some thinned reds to make it look unnatural. The wings were done with bone and a blue sheen to make him look more daemonic as he is a creature of the warp. All in all, a very difficult model to build (everything had to be pinned and green stuffed) but not all that hard to paint.








The nurgling bases were a quick and dirty job, I did want all the bases to have a different colour to make it easier to distinguish them. Fun models to paint as they take little time but still show some good results.




And as a parting shot a better pic of the noise marine, the lords of excess. These guys probably won't see the field a whole lot due to the currently horrible rules they have but it was nice to paint something that I haven't really done before.

[horacus]

Great work on Fulgrim sons. Also, great bloodthirster.

[Fawful]

First up, I made a quick update to the first post to include an overview of the army and my goal for it.

I have been painting some new stuff. Two screamers, the first obliterator and a random spawn.

The screamers didn't have their tails so I had to green stuff them on. I didn't make the spikes since they would probably fall off, that an I'm not that good ad sculpting. I've painted these models by using a solid basecoat and then making the paints as wet as they can be to show a more gradual colour change. The unit is currently to small to be fielded so I hope to get some more in the future. They are also quite fun to paint since they differ so much from all the other models. When I get any others they will probably end up in other and brighter colours.





The spawn was a bit of an experiment as I wanted to use some bright colours after doing the noise marines. This turned out in to either a spawn of tzeentch or one from slaanesh, but I'll let you be the judge of that.





And finally the obliterator. I painted him in the same basic colours as my plague marines to tie him in with the rest of the army. The fleshy bits had a basecoat of purple with additional layers of red and flesh colours.




I now also have 40 regular chaos marines to paint, but I'm having trouble on deciding their paint scheme. I could use the dirty white with bronze edges for them (same as the termi's and obliterator) or do a more traditional green scheme. I've even considered doing every squad with a different colour, but that might end up a bit to much like an disorganised mob of colours. Any ideas for this are more than welcome

[Demoulius]

Well chaos warbands can be made up of marines from several sources so if you paint all of them in different colours you can still explain it

Do screamers always come with those bases? Those are huge

[Fawful]

Well chaos warbands can be made up of marines from several sources so if you paint all of them in different colours you can still explain it

Do screamers always come with those bases? Those are huge

Myeah, I think I'll stick to one main colour and maybe make the shoulderpart different or something like that.

I just put the screamers on the first base I could find, I think they are normally based on 30 mm bases.

I have done some more painting now, a rhino and the rest of the noise marines.
The rhino was done in the same way as the obliterator and uses a lighter version of the scheme I used for the plague marines. This is the colour I want to use on the regular marines. It's also quite quick to that helps as well when I have 40 or so marines to paint.






And the rest of the noise marines, painted in the same way as the rest of the squad. There is another five in there, the middle one is doubled up on the pictures.

[horacus]

The children of fulgrim look nice. Also, the rhino is great

[Fawful]

The children of fulgrim look nice. Also, the rhino is great

Thanks for the compliment

I've done some further painting a couple of days ago. The first half of the Khorne beserker squad has been finished and I've decided upon a scheme for the regular guys.

The beserkers have been painted from a brown undercoat. The top layer is some foundation mechrite red that hasn't mixed successfully. As such it's fairly shiny. This makes it great for using in flesh wounds and for red armour, as it now looks like it has been bloodied quite recently. This does reflect a bit on the photographs, but they are a little darker in reality.




The scheme for the regular marines look a bit like that of my plague marines. I wanted to make them look like they were the same faction without making them look exactly the same. As such I have chosen a scheme that has bits of both. The white has been painted in the same way as the obliterator and the rhino. The black parts add contrast to the model.






I've also acquired Typhus (the model not the disease ), a unit of pink horrors and the changeling. Since GW is updating it's paint line I will be waiting a while to paint them since it's rumoured there is a new pink in there as well. That should be perfect for the horrors.

[I_Renegade_I]

Very cool army with some inventive conversions.

[Fawful]

So, it's has been quite a while since the last update. As such, I have quite a few new models to show off. First up is the second defiler, I painted this one in my main scheme to make it fit in more with the army. I also attempted some free hands on the side boards but not all of them turned out as I wanted.




Next up is Typhus, he's not in his original death guard colours but in the style of the rest of my army. He's still quite plague encrusted tough




And the first half of my regular marines, this squad is going to carry two meltas. I've ditched the icons as I think the game mechanics for them suck at the moment. I only play friendly games either way so I'm sure it wouldn't be much trouble if I gave the mark to a particular model. But I mostly hope that they change it in the next codex.


And some daemons, the pink horrors of tzeentch and the character, the changeling. I couldn't get a good shot of the eyes since they are so low on the model. As it is this is the best pic I could take of them.




Beyond all the models I've been thinking about the fluff of my army. Unless the next codex changes things I'm thinking of a wealthy or powerful nurgle war band that attracts followers of the other gods by offering them a chance to fight in some of the biggest battles they have ever been in. Still need to fill in the details, any other suggestions are also welcome.

As a last note, I've also finished up the last 6 beserkers but I forgot to take pictures of them. Look for them in the next update.

[gonzosbignose]

Not over looking your other work, all great... but really wanted to bring up your nurgle rhino a few posts back!

Looking terrific! Really like the tarnished nurgle feel to it!

regards

My name is Daniel and I am a wargamer

[Setesh]

I love the skintone you used on the mutant leader with the axe and the guardsmen, could you share the technique?

[Fawful]

Not over looking your other work, all great... but really wanted to bring up your nurgle rhino a few posts back!

Looking terrific! Really like the tarnished nurgle feel to it!

regards

Thanks, it really turned out as I wanted it to so it's good to know others feel the same way

I love the skintone you used on the mutant leader with the axe and the guardsmen, could you share the technique?

It has been a while so there might be some small mistakes in the paint names. If I remember correctly it was this:
Basecoat: astronomicon grey (new one: celestra)
Very light was with thraka green (biel tan green)
Build up with either astronomicon or fortress grey (administratum grey) (depending on the effect you want)
Light wash with badab black (nuln oil)
If you have any blistering or festering spots you can add some light purple wash there.

Hope that helps, it has been a while since I've painted them so it might turn out a little different.

[Fawful]

It's been a while but I finally have an update. I've recently purchased some bloodcrushers and I've finished the first three of them. They have red highlights on a black base which makes them almost impossible to photograph. Here are the best shots. There is to much flash on the first picture but it should give you an idea of how they look. The highlighting also takes quite a lot of time so it's a bit of shame it shows up so badly.






Other than that I've been working on some chaos terrain.
First up are some riverbeds which I'll either make into a river of blood or a river of puss and other nasty stuff. It still needs another coat of paint to fill up some remaining gaps.


Next up is a daemon portal. Made from plastic card green stuff and some arcane ruins I still had laying around. The entire piece will be repainted of course. I've also put in some spare tentacles from the chaos spawn kit.


Last up is a pipe with tentacles and mutated rats. The idea is to make it look something nasty is flowing out, but I'll have to see how it works out when I paint it.
In the background you can see a bit of chaos terrain that I've been working on as well.


Next models to be finishes are skulltaker and five furies.

[Demoulius]

Nice update man LOVE the new terrein! Really characterfull

Those bloodcrushers really kicked some **** in our last game eh?

[Fawful]

Nice update man LOVE the new terrain! Really characterful

Those bloodcrushers really kicked some **** in our last game eh?

The terrain turned out quite well, now I just need to paint it
Bloodcrushers are marine slaughterers so that was kind of expected, they are a keeper for sure.

Either way I finished some more stuff. First up is skulltaker. Like most character models I found this one quite fun to paint. Now I just need to get a unit of bloodletters to accompany him into battle. Or I just might use with the bloodcrushers.


And his skull cloak


Some furies I got from e-bay. They are painted up in Nurgle colours, I shouldn't have to explain why




And last but not least some more nurglings.


Now I have to decide what to paint next, probably some marines. I should also be getting a leman russ in the mail soon which I will convert into a demolisher (still have that bits for that one) for my renegade army.

[Appophis]

Hey man as a long time death guard player I just have to say I love this log and I can't wait to see what happens with it, keep up the good work.

[Fawful]

Hey man as a long time death guard player I just have to say I love this log and I can't wait to see what happens with it, keep up the good work.

Thanks for the compliment.

As it has been far to long already here is a bigger update. This time I've got some more models and a couple of terrain pieces.

I finished up the last two termi's I still had and one more obliterator. These units are finished for now.


I finished the last four models from my first chaos marine squad. They are standing on a piece of terrain I started a long time ago. If anyone has some suggestions to chaosify it a bit more I'd like to know


I also got an old leman russ from ebay, I switched out the normal battlecanon for a demolisher cannon to give it a little more heavy fire power.








And the last model, a overseer (chaos commissar) that I painted together with the termis. There is a bit to much light on the pic, but it'll have to do.


And three pieces of terrain. First up is a sewer exit with some rats. There might just be something living in there